I like it. It looks different from the picture in my mind, but definately has potential to be scary.
I think he looks kind of sad in that picture. More sad than scary, at any rate.
I think it could work, there is a big enough creep factor in there. Although for some reason I imagined him older.
There is no tangible reason for me thinking that, and I am sure someone will come along and give me a timeline as to what his age would be, taking into consideration how the time that he spent without a body would equate into the aging process.
I don’t know, I guess I just thought that he has been through a lot, I am sure being the Dark Lord comes with stress like you wouldn’t believe, and all of that would equal some wrinkles, but maybe that would make him look too vulnerable.
Looks pretty emo/goth. Even painted his bedroom black.
I agree and I think that it is critical to make him both scary and sad at the same time. I also think they can use the look he has in the fourth movie to reverse engineer his look in the sixth movie, when that arrives.
Too much nose. Voldemort is supposed to have no nose at all, just slits for nostrils.
Is this official? Looks like fan-Photoshop off a stock image of Fiennes.
His scar looks a lot like Harry’s (just bigger).
I’m gonna have to cast my agreement.
Especially when a quick GIS gives me another interpretation (file name My_Voldemort) from the same source.
I thought it was from the poster book. Maybe it is a fake.
Here are a few other characters from the fourth movie.
Cho: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2005/08/choscarf.html
Cedric: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2005/08/cedrichood.html
Some Gryffindor: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2005/08/gryffindor.html
Mad-eye Moody: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2005/08/madeye.html
What do you all think about Mad-eye? I had a different picture in my head. I thought his eye was in his socket, not held on by a head band. Am I wrong?
No, I think you’re right. I remember him being able to pop it out, to clean it, so I assumed it would be something more like a glass eye, but bright blue and able to swirl in all directions, so when he looked through the back of his head, you’d just see the white.
The first picture looks like it might be a Ringwraith. The second one might be taken from Palpatine.
Oooh!! I can confirm that the picture is a FAKE. For one, I saw a post by the guy who made it, and for two, I saw a test screening of the film a few weeks ago.
Ralph Fiennes won’t look anything like that. The special effects weren’t done yet and he had green and blue dots on his face, so they’re going to CGI in a pretty horrific look for him. Fiennes was bald and not wearing a hooded cloak, so I don’t know if the CGI will extend to his hair. Probably.
In any case, they have months yet to work on his look, so no way are they going to be stupid enough to release photos now. My guess is that they’ll keep it pretty close until the release date.
I can tell you one thing about his final character. Fiennes was FREAKING TERRIFYING without even any help from makeup or prosthetics, so I can’t even imagine how it’s going to be when we see the final character. I’ll bet there’ll be kids running out of the theater in terror. The movie is NOT going to be good for the younger kids.
Another thing, no one should fret for a second about Mad-Eye Moody, just because he doesn’t look the way you imagined. Brendan Gleeson is BRILLIANT in the role, and once everyone sees him in action in the context of the movie, they’re going to love him. Honest. He steals every scene he’s in.
I’m glad to hear it. Something about it just doesn’t say ‘Voldemort’ to me.
I read that his nose will be very snake-like, which fits in with the green dots on Ralph’s nose.
It doesn’t look like anyone here is curious about the movie, so either y’all really aren’t curious, or you think I’m a liar and scoundrel for claiming to see a movie I hadn’t seen (I can prove it though). Or you just don’t want to be spoiled, which is very understandable and the most likely explanation as to why I haven’t been asked a single question here, when I’ve already answered hundreds of questions at a Harry Potter site, even though many answers were of the “I don’t remember” variety. I was at a disadvantage for not having read the books before seeing the movie. Still, seeing it finally got me off my duff to read all 6 books, which I enjoyed tremendously.
I think the picture in the op looks like the scary evil tooth fairy lady from Darkness Falls.
Equipoise, did they do Madame Maxime right? In this teaser, it looks like she’s very thin, but I had always pictured her as kind of a big huge Hagrid in drag.
That is indeed Madame Maxime, and she’s quite formidible. She and Hagrid get along famously, though the subplots about
their failed romance, and them being descendents of giants
is not included.
If I can impress upon anybody anything (not you specifically Marlitharn), it would be to get those book pictures right out of your head. The movie is excellent and will be even better once they get the special effects done. Voldemort is amazing (even unfinished), Mad-Eye Moody is amazing, Rita Skeeter is amazing (though her part is cut way down), Michael Gambon OWNS Dumbledore now. It’s all good.
It’s funny how many times I’ve read the words “… (is) not like I imagined.” Go to the Comments section on the front page of Mugglenet.com and read the comments for any item having to do with casting (like Cho or Mad-Eye). You’d think people would see 400 other people saying “… not like I imagined” they’d maybe think twice about saying it themselves, but no. They say it anyway, just in case one more person needs to hear it. That’s alright, I understand, but it really bothers me when they condemn the movie because of it, and several people do.
You’d think that after 3 movies, those fans on mugglenet would have learned that the casting directors aren’t going to be coming to their house, hooking them up to a machine that extracts the exact picture of all the characters they have in their heads, then casting or applying makeup based on those very personalized images. Hope springs eternal I suppose, but it’s really strange to hear it over and over. I got my own pictures in my head when I read the books too (though, starting with Order of the Phoenix) but I’ve already made at least 3 frineds promise to shoot me dead if they ever hear me complaining that so and so or such and such isn’t how I imagined. Saying it is one thing, complaining about it is another. (Not that you were complaining about it Marlitharn, you were just commenting)
If I have any complaints about the movie it’s that it’s too short, even at 2.5 hours. They could make it nearly 3 and I wouldn’t mind. I thought that before I read the book too.
I love that teaser btw. I love how it points up how the kids have grown. Btw, the Merpeople in the teaser are MUCH better looking in the actual film. They’re still working on the special effects.
ooh! I have plenty of questions, and don’t mind spoilers. For those who do, though, here is an innocuous black box.
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do Ron and Harry have the same big row?
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does Ron get jealous of Hermione and Krum?
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Does Krum have a sexy Slav accent (he’s 18, I’m allowed)
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Are all the Tri-wizard events pretty much in?
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Is the Dark Mark/muggle torturing much as it is in the book?
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And is the ending pretty much the same? Not that I’d mind loads if it isn’t, I just don’t want to know too much if so! [/spoiler]
Ha, I looked in the forum a minute ago, then left and came back, and your post was here! I say that just to let you know that I don’t sit around refreshing every 2 seconds.
[spoiler]
- do Ron and Harry have the same big row?
Yes, they’re estranged throughout a big chunk of the movie. Ron thinks Harry put his own name into the Goblet of Fire and is mad because Harry should have told him. Lots of students wear “POTTER STINKS” buttons, but during their confrontation, Harry doesn’t throw one of them at Ron.
- does Ron get jealous of Hermione and Krum?
Yes, but it’s done in such a way that it doesn’t come off as straight jealousy. It was obvious to me, as a then-non-book reader, that Hermione really liked Ron and wanted him to ask her to the dance, and that Ron really liked Hermione but didn’t want to admit it to himself or Hermione. Btw, the talking walk that Harry and Krum take isn’t in the movie.
- Does Krum have a sexy Slav accent (he’s 18, I’m allowed)
Yes, but he doesn’t talk much.
- Are all the Tri-wizard events pretty much in?
All 3, yes. They seemed fairly rushed to me, but it didn’t matter. I was on the edge of my seat for all 3. The maze is the most changed. Maybe it’s because they didn’t have the special effects done, but there was no sphinx, no blast-ended screwts, no big spiders. Oh, and Harry saved Cedric’s life, not the other way around.
- Is the Dark Mark/muggle torturing much as it is in the book?
Yes, but I’m answering that based on what someone else who had read the book said, because I didn’t/don’t remember it. It’s very vivid in the book and I don’t know why I didn’t see it. Maybe the special effects weren’t done but they saw enough of the outline to know what it was. A LOT of special effects weren’t done.
A lot of the World Cup is changed. No sky box. Harry is alone when he sees Barty Crouch Jr. call the Dark Mark in the sky (which was terrifyingly impressive, btw). They had Barty Jr. play a much bigger role (for instance, he’s at the Riddle house at the beginning when Frank Bryce listens in to Voldemort and Wormtail and is killed for it). There’s no Winky or SPEW anywhere in the film. No Dobby. Neville tells Harry about the gillyweed.
- And is the ending pretty much the same? Not that I’d mind loads if it isn’t, I just don’t want to know too much if so!
Yes, the ending is very much the same, both with the graveyard scene and the confrontation in Moody’s office. [/spoiler]
If you (or anyone) wants to be spoiled loads, you can go to this thread at The Leaky Cauldron, where I answered questions. A thread I started on oscarwatch.com is referenced, but the thread was closed and deleted at oscarwatch (it crashed their servers). The Oscarwatch thread, part of it anyway, can be found here, where I cut and pasted to my own page. That’s way out of date, since I stopped cutting and pasting before I even read the books.
In my own defense for those early posts, I hadn’t read the books and was woefully ignorant. I’ve since read all 6.